Example sentences of "they would have a [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 If he filled those in they 'd have a devil of a job lifting them !
2 I could give them the key to Father 's safe and they 'd be so grateful they 'd have a pair of boots made specially for me .
3 On the annual ‘ Show ’ ( Carnival ) Day , they would have a parade of painted ‘ giants ’ and similar displays passing through the streets .
4 The Royal Institution had tried this and they would have a set of Saturday mornings where they had mathematicians talking to children of about thirteen or fourteen .
5 They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch .
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